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Golem - the answer to all your Rayquaza prayers?

A decent team of R/SE Golem should be able to absorb anything Rayquaza has.
Articuno is double weakness against Ancient Power, not to mention glass cannon.
Honorable mention: Gyarados - might last 3 Ancient Power at the most, but it should get you some damage points with DT/O.

Asked by Thaiguy907 years 2 months ago

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Yep. Probably one of the sturdier choices. I only had three Golems powered up the last time I needed them, and I've caught several level 30-35 weather boosted Geodudes since then. Going to be fun. I'll probably lead off with some ice types, then throw some rocks at it.

Golem will be a solid choice for sure

Don't agree about Articuno though. While it's true that it'll get destroyed by Ancient Power, double super-effective Ice damage is going to be too good to ignore, especially against the other two movesets. Hardly a glass cannon with it's high defense coupled with respectable stamina.

If he's released in time, then Aggron should also be a great option. Resistant to all of Ray's attacks, and can learn Dragon Tail and Stone Egde. Gardevoir should also be a strong choice because of the immunity to Dragon.

Looks like he is going to be released in time

Glad I caught 2 level 35 geodude with 80% IV today :D

Golem is useable if you want TDO against AP movesets, but that's it. It loses to ice and Dragonite in DPS against all movesets and also loses in TDO to a bunch of mons against non-AP movesets.

Gyarados is just a worse Dragonite. Not worth using unless you don't have enough ice mons, Gardevoirs, Dragonites or Golems to fill the team.

Is Dragonite only going to perform in Aerial Ace though? Stab outrage from Rayquaza sounds painful- Zapdos can tank a blizzard from Kyogre only when maxed out, and I think a stab outrage from Rayquaza is stronger

AP should be OK for dragonite I guess

Outrage will OHKO any Dragonite so not advisable to use there. Ice mons will however outperform Golem significantly. Against AA both ice mons and Dragonite are much better than Golem.

Apparently according to pokebattler, it wants me to go in with 5 Dragonite (3 at 40, 2 at 35.5) and an Articuno (lvl 30, but not willing to spend rare candy on it). After that there's a Walrein, some Golem, my lvl 40 Raikou, and another Dragonite (not in that specific order) completing the top 12.

It's gonna save me some dust on ice types, as I checked what it would do if I boosted the Walrein and Articuno to 40, but it would not gain me enough for the dust investment.

Yes, pretty sure it's better than most ice types and dragon types in some cases, like Ancient Power (Cannot use Ice Types or Dragonite/Salamence) or Outrage (Cannot use Dragon Types).

At level 30 against DT/AP, Jynx, Piloswine, Lapras, Articuno, Dragonite and Walrein all rank higher than Golem due to having so much better DPS. Lapras in particular is almost strictly better than Golem, 1% less power, 70 seconds less time to win, but even all the others have 14% or more power, meaning you don't need Golem's better TDO if you're raiding with 7 or more people. Golem may be preferable if you're going with 5 players, but if the 4 others use Jynxes and rejoin once you'll be the only one getting only 2 damage balls.